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BringMeMyFix-
I didn't think it was that funny. I know it's a waste of time to keep pointing it out to the communist majority on here, who seem immune to logic.
I do find the contrast in the prevailing political mood between here and the TTForum striking, not sure why two groups of cyclists should diverge so radically, but I recommend that anybody even slightly liberal should steer clear if they are easily offended, even I find them a bit much sometimes :-)
gbj_tester
What is fair about a 100m running race in which one person wins and another loses?
In both cases, a set of rules which apply equally to everybody who starts.
Elites and underclasses existed long before parliaments, so you can't really say that anything in our current forms of government gave rise to them. At best, you might say that our form of government perpetuates them, but then so does every other form yet devised, many more so than representative democracy.
That may be true, but it's irrelevant to this discussion. Scotland is part of the same small island as England and, for all the faults of our mutual history, acceded to the union voluntarily, so the rule of Scotland from Westminster is neither 'imposed' nor 'from afar' in any common meaning of those terms.